Karl Theobald Gauweiler

Karl Theobald Gauweiler (born August 31, 1909 in Cottbus ; † January 1942 in Berlin ), known as Theo, was a high-ranking member of the National Socialist German Workers' Party (NSDAP) and the SA . He was sentenced to death in 1941 as a " pest of the people " after it became known that he had embezzled donations.

Life

Theo Gauweiler grew up as the son of the preacher Friedrich Gauweiler. At the age of thirteen he was a member of the Völkischer Bund Eberswalde . During his school days at the Kaiserslautern secondary school , he joined the Hitler Youth in 1925 . This was followed on September 1, 1927, when he joined the NSDAP ( membership number 60.103) and the SA. In 1928 he excelled as a Gau speaker. In the SA he rose to the rank of Sturmbannführer . Professionally, he first trained as a dentist and was from April 1933 to May 1, 1934 assistant at the teaching institute for dentists in Frankfurt am Main. However, he then became district inspector of the NSBO and the DAF in the Gau Rheinpfalz . He was also head of the DAF's press office. He played a leading role in the November pogroms on the night of November 9th, 1938 in Frankenthal .

From 1934 to 1941 he was district leader in Frankenthal. From 1940 to 1941 he was district administrator and DVG district leader of the Salzburgen district in occupied Lorraine . The Frankenthal public prosecutor's office began investigating him in March 1941. In the period from 1937 to 1940, for example, he embezzled donations amounting to 90,000 Reichsmarks , which he spent on his lover. Gauweiler tried to evade prosecution by volunteering for the Wehrmacht . On November 7, 1941, however, the Reich Court Martial sentenced him to death twice as a “pest”. The death sentence was confirmed by Adolf Hitler on January 21, 1942 , and executed by shooting in January . His membership in the NSDAP and SA was posthumously revoked.

literature

Franz Maier: Biographical organization manual of the NSDAP and its structures in the area of today's state of Rhineland-Palatinate (= publications of the commission of the state parliament for the history of the state of Rhineland-Palatinate . No. 28 ). 2nd Edition. v. Hase & Koehler, Mainz / Zarrentin 2009, ISBN 978-3-7758-1408-9 , p. 230-232 .

Web links

Entry on Karl Theobald Gauweiler in the Rhineland-Palatinate personal database

Individual evidence

^ The Reichskristallnacht in Frankenthal. Funding Association for Jewish Remembrance Frankenthal eV, accessed on October 16, 2012 . }

personal data
SURNAME	Gauweiler, Karl Theobald
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German dentist, member of the NSDAP and the SA
DATE OF BIRTH	August 31, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH	cottbus
DATE OF DEATH	January 1942
Place of death	Berlin

[1] The Reichskristallnacht in Frankenthal. Funding Association for Jewish Remembrance Frankenthal eV, accessed on October 16, 2012 . }